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Not-So Standard Candles: How a Bias in Distance Calculations Impacts Our Understanding of Dark Energy
Today’s paper explores how a potential bias in the way we calculate the distance to galaxies impacts our understanding of dark energy.
Astronomers Hate Them! This Star Formation Ingredient Makes Clusters Look 300 Million Years Older
Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are …
Strength in Numbers: How Cloud Communities Weather Galactic Storms
Classic theory says only big clouds should survive galactic winds, but these new simulations show that’s not the whole story. Whether a cloud lives or dies depends not only on its size, but also on the environment it’s sitting in.
Bringing the Sun to Us
Today’s authors created a Sun-like plasma in a lab to study the Sun’s interior from Earth.
Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree
Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite!
Dust in the Wind: A New Tool for Understanding Galactic Outflows
The galaxy M82 is host to an extended multiphase wind driven by star formation. Today’s paper attempts to use JWST observations of dust in the wind to understand the structure of its cooler gas.
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
Scientists’ Role in Nuclear Disarmament: A Conversation with Dr. Curtis Asplund
I sat down with Dr. Curtis Asplund to discuss the current landscape of nuclear weapons, and why the scientific community should work together to prevent them from ever being used again.
Bringing the Stars in the Sky to Stars on Hawai’i Island: The tradition of a yearly outreach event
Today’s bite features an annual tradition in astronomy outreach in Hawai’i with excerpts of personal experiences of the author.
Anomaly Detection and Classification of Astronomical Objects in the Era of Machine Learning
Guest author Torsha Majumder takes us through some of the many applications for machine learning in astronomy.
Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
#BlackInAstro Experiences: Dr. Carl E. Fields
Another interview for #BlackInAstroWeek! We interview Dr. Carl E. Fields, a rising star studying core-collapse supernovae using computer simulations and one of the #BlackInAstro co-organizers!
#BlackInAstro Experiences: Caprice Phillips
Another interview for #BlackInAstroWeek! We interview Caprice Phillips, a rising star studying exoplanets and one of the #BlackInAstro organizers!
#BlackInAstro Experiences: Dakotah Tyler
For #AstroWorld this #BlackInAstroWeek we interview Dakotah Tyler, Astrophysics PhD student at UCLA, whose unique journey to studying exoplanet atmospheres and demographics started on the football field!